said:
>1) Was Mark A. actually sure IBM1FLOPPY.ADD was present
> on the PPC? If absent, OS/2 cannot access a floppy,
> so I conclude that the two levels of virtualization aren't
> communicating (for what ever that's worth).
It was there in config.sys, and there were no errors on loading. I
watched carefully during loading, after pressing ALT-F2. (Yes, this
works, too!)
>2) Is it possible XDFLOPPY.FLT was active, and somehow causing some
> conflict within the emulator?
This driver was there in config.sys. Is it not supposed to be?
>3) I've noticed a driver IBMINT13.I13 - could this have anything
> to do with the floppy?
>4) Does the PPC have a parallel port? If so, maybe Mark
> could hook up a PP Zip drive for a removeable/writable media,
> or just start writing all his floppy stuff to a writable CD-ROM.
There is a zip drive, so floppies could be written to a ZIP drive first, I
suppose. Perhaps even easier (?) is to follow a suggestion by Melanie.
Set up DOS in an a bootable extended partition, and see if drive A: will
work there. Then boot into OS/2, accessign the info you had transferred
in DOS from the floppy.
5)
>Will diddeling with the value of IOPL= in Config.sys do any good?
6)
>Declare this a security enhancment, making the PPC emulation
> immune to boot sector viruses.
This is perhaps a great selling point!
In any case, I'll pass along some ofthese ideas, but I'm returning the Mac
in a few hours, so won't have time to check out these things.
--
- Mark
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